Local NBC Reporter Hilariously Denies Soviet Flags Present At May Day Rally: ‘What Do They

Mediaite ^ | 5/2/13 | Noah Rothman

[Nachum]

While covering a May Day rally in Manhattan’s Union Square on Wednesday, NBC New York reporter Ida Siegal was cornered and asked if her network planned to show the communist imagery the protesters were displaying. Hilarity ensued when Siegal immediately became defensive, denying she had seen any communist imagery and asking of the “Hammer-and-Sickle” flags: “What do they represent?”

“You guys are with channel 4 news,” the videographer noted while addressing Siegal and her production team. “Are you guys going to show any of the people with Hammer and Sickle flags?”

“I haven’t seen any of those flags,” Siegal replied amid the din of the ongoing protests activity. “What do they represent?”

The National Review Online posted a selection of some of the communist imagery and iconography that was present at the Union Square protest marking International Workers Day – the secular holiday that celebrates international socialist solidarity. Here are some highlights:

[Snickering Hound]

Communications major from Syracuse. All you need to know.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Does the reporterette still have her teeth? Is her naked body covered by tar overlaying multiple bruises? If not why not? Are there no Americans left at the place where the leftists gathered-all 15 of them?

[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[tomkat]

Here nitwit, a visual for you to ponder - it's that little thingy in the upper right, next to the halfbreed traitør maggot :

             

[BenLurkin]

[okie01]

WNBC New York: Lending further credibility to my tagline.

[dynachrome]

“Pyle Hall, as in Ernie Pyle’

They probably think it is named after Gomer Pyle

[gleeaikin]

And this is a bad thing??

[Trod Upon]

Look at the crowd—several Middle Eastern men and at least one woman in Islamic slave garb. Color me NOT even a little surprised.

[RedStateGuyTrappedinCT]

mayday is a communist celebration throughout the world, except in the USA where it is forbidden to say “communist.”

Correction: It was never celebrated in the USA until this Regime and our Dear Reader made it a celebration. Only, he repackaged it as Loyalty Day.

Here I thought we had days like Independence Day where we remember the birth of our nation and the loyalty we hold to our Constitution, not to any one Leader. But, I guess I'm just old fashioned and haven't embraced CHANGE. So, in that spirit, I wish you all a
Happy Loyalty Day Comrades!

[VerySadAmerican]

A true useful idiot.

[dljordan]

“I remember being at a 2nd Amendment rally in Denver years ago. A reporterette was talking to me and asked if I could point out any Tyranny Response Team members.”

Was that the one where we were protesting the million mad mommies and the Brady Bunch or the TRT rally?

[Toespi]

In many countries, the working classes sought to make May Day an official holiday, and their efforts largely succeeded. May Day has long been a focal point for demonstrations by various socialist, communist and anarchist groups. In Germany, May Day coincides with Walpurgisnacht.[7] May Day has been an important official holiday in countries such as the People’s Republic of China, North Korea, Cuba and the former Soviet Union. May Day celebrations typically feature elaborate popular and military parades in these countries[citation needed].

[Polynikes]

” “Are you guys going to show any of the people with Hammer and Sickle flags?”

“I haven’t seen any of those flags,” Siegal replied amid the din of the ongoing protests activity. “What do they represent?”

cue the Chad Mitchell Trio singing the
“I was not a Nazi Polka”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3fP15F6szA
http://www.akh.se/lyrics/I_Was_Not_A_Nazi_Polka.htm
—As you travel through Der Schöne Deutschland,
—A melody will greet your ears.
—It's a melody that's been around in Deutschland
—For fifteen to twenty years.

Each and ev’ry German dances to the strain
Of the I Was Not a Nazi Polka.
All without exception join in the refrain
Of the I Was Not a Nazi Polka.

Göring was a crazy we wanted to deport.
Sing the I Was Not a Nazi Polka.
We all thought that Dachau was just a nice resort.
Sing the I Was Not a Nazi Polka.

The German is so cultured, he does not like to fight.
The peaceful life is what he most enjoys.
For years, the German people were utterly convinced
I. G. Farben manufactured children's toys.

I never shot a Luger or goosed a single step.
Sing the I Was Not a Nazi Polka.

[Nachum]

Great stuff :)

[hummingbird]

"We’re only three days from Stinko DeMayo also. That should be a hoot this year falling on a Sunday."

Remember Obama's famous "Cinco de Quartro"....

[Travis McGee]

[hummingbird]

"In many countries, the working classes sought to make May Day an official holiday, and their efforts largely succeeded."

I will have to sort through some papers for reference and citation. I recall John Paul II having something to say about May Day. He grew up in Poland and had a first eye view of Communism.

Toespi, I'll get back asap.......

[Pinkbell]

It’s either she doesn’t know, and that’s scary. It makes her an ignorant member of the media. Or she does know and is hiding it, and that’s scary. It also makes her an ignorant member of the media.